Blagen v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably Southwest Battery Corp. v. Owen (1938), Hunter-Benn Co. Company v. Bassett Lumber Co. (1932)
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. . Colver · Bronson v. Coffin · Roberts v. New York Elevated Railroad · Messmore v. New York Shot & Lead Co. · O'Brien v. . Home Benefit Society
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The rule that damages which are uncertain or contingent cannot be recovered does not embrace an uncertainty as to the value of the benefit or gain to be derived from the performance of the contract, but an uncertainty or contingency as to whether such gain or benefit would be derived at all. It only applies to such damages as are not the certain result of the breach, and not to such as are the certain result but uncertain in amount. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When two written contracts are entered into between the same parties, concerning the same subject-matter, whether made simultaneously or on different days, they may, under some circumstances, be regarded as one contract and interpreted together.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“including gains prevented as well as losses sustained”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.